Sentences with phrase «of a primary challenge from»

There's also always the threat of a primary challenge from Sen. Toby Stavisky, whose home was redrawn into Avella's district during the last round of redistricting.

The committee was fresh off a series of primary challenges from a group of renegade Democrats that contributed to the party losing control of the county legislature to the GOP in 2013.

Nevertheless, the end of the primary challenges from Liu and Koppell never seemed to be part of the agreement to form a new coalition, according to Sen. Mike Gianaris in a Capital Tonight interview last week.

The measure would likely be supported by Cuomo, who is tacking left in the face of a primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon, the actress and activist.

Alix Anfang, who rassled with reporters for Maloney's successful weathering of a primary challenge from newcomer Reshma Saujani, has departed the congresswoman's office to sign on with Schneiderman as a deputy press secretary.

The verdict comes as Cuomo faces the possibility of a primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, a potential scenario which appears to have blindsided the governor and his top aides last week, sending them scrambling into campaign mode.

Soares is in the midst of a primary challenge from attorney Lee Kindlon.

In the end, nearly a third of the Republicans who sat on the committee in 2006 — seven of 24, including Boehlert — were defeated or retired over the next six years in the wake of primary challenges from the right.

Not exact matches

Henceforth, «great - power competition,» not terrorism, must be the primary focus of U.S. national security, the report declares: «The central challenge to U.S. prosperity and security is the reemergence of long - term strategic competition,» primarily from China and Russia.

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

Today it's Grover Norquist and not Richard Epstein who polices the boundaries of contemporary conservatism, funding primary challenges to those who deviate from tax - rate orthodoxy.

In this connection, I have been particularly struck by Gustavo Gutiérrez's observation that, whereas much contemporary theology seeks to respond to the challenge of the «nonbeliever» who questions our «religious world» as Christians, in a continent like Latin America the primary challenge comes to us rather from the «nonperson» who questions us about our «economic, social, political and cultural world.»

We'll explore the ins and outs of school meal program operations, from procurement and finance to lunchroom education and human resources, including the primary challenges that school food programs face today.

She ultimately chose to run in the 16th SD instead of the 11th, but could always change her mind, especially if she faces a third primary challenge challenge from John Messer.

As he faces a tough primary challenge from former NYC Comptroller John Liu, Sen. Tony Avella has picked up the support of the New York League of Conservation Voters, which today will name the Queens senator its top priority candidate in advance of the Sept. 9 election.

NYSUT tried unsuccessfully to make a similar argument in hopes of assisting Democrats who were facing challenges from pro-charter primary opponents (as it turned out, the incumbents weren't in need of help).

The senator, a Democrat - turned - Republican who ousted former Democratic Sen. Antoine Thompson in one of the state's most Democrat - dominated districts in 2010, also faces a primary challenge from Kevin T. Stocker.

Rep. Yvette Clarke, a Brooklyn Democrat who is facing a primary challenge from Sylvia Kinard, ex-wife of former NYC Comptroller / 2013 mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson, has picked up the endorsement (via press release) of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

As of yesterday, there are now three Democrats vying for the right to challenge GOP Rep. Nan Hayworth, who might yet face a primary challenge from Sen. Greg Ball in NY - 19.

Spitzer staved off a primary challenge from then - Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi was then turned to beating the daylights out of the far lesser known and underfunded GOP candidate, former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso.

While appearing at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Sandra Lee's documentary Early Detection — A Cancer Journey With Sandra Lee, Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke with US Weekly about the primary challenge he faces from Cynthia Nixon.

Cuomo this year faces his own political challenge from the left in the form of a primary waged by actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon.

Factoring into some of their concerns, he acknowledged, was whether they would face fallout from a primary challenge on their right or the loss of the backing of the Conservative Party.

Felder is a registered Democrat and is running on the Democratic line, (NOTE: He also is facing a primary challenge from a fellow Democrat, Abraham Tischler), but he has a history of alliances with Republicans — most notably, Mayor Bloomberg (back before he switched his enrollment for the second time and became an independent).

The former member of the now - defunct Independent Democratic Conference faces a primary challenge this year from Robert Jackson, a former New York City councilman.

Parker is facing a primary challenge from perennial candidate Wellington Sharpe, who got a boost recently in the form of the DN's endorsement (which was really more of an un-endorsement of Parker).

UFCW Local 1500 also will be announcing its endorsement of LG Kathy Hochul, who is facing a primary challenge from Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, who enjoys support from groups that were active in backing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» 2016 presidential primary bid against Hillary Clinton.

Felder said he doesn't feel pressure to make a decision one way or another from Cuomo, who clearly is feeling pressure himself — likely from the primary challenge launched by Cynthia Nixon, who has made control of the Senate a focus of her campaign thus far — enough pressure, that is, to want to accelerate the peace deal between the warring Democratic factions that was struck late last year.

However, it also means that the Democratic Party leaders will dictate the selection of a candidate, protecting their contender, political newcomer Matt Zeller, from a primary challenge.

Gillibrand spent considerable time wooing the labor - backed party along with other so - called «progressive» interests (the LGBT community, black and Latino stakeholders etc.) Her initial selection by Gov. David Paterson to fill the seat vacated by former Sen. Hillary Clinton was met with considerable skepticism — and, in some cases, flat - out hostility — from a number of key liberal figures, who subsequently either considered challenging her in a primary themselves or encouraged others to do so.

Also, that means some of the staunchest charter opponents, including Sen. Bill Perkins, who is facing a primary challenge from pro-charter Democrat (and former Bloomberg campaign aide) Basil Smikle; and Shirley Huntley, who also has a pro-charter primary opponent, voted «yes.»

A number of organized labor groups have lined up to provide early endorsements to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term this fall and faces a new primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, with the latest nod coming from the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workers union.

The event included Sen. Marisol Alcantara, one of the newer members of the IDC who faces a competitive primary challenge from former City Councilman Robert Jackson next year.

But the biggest difference between this spring and last summer is that Cuomo is facing a primary challenge from his left in the insurgent candidacy of Cynthia Nixon.

Even if Spitzer collects the necessary 3,750 signatures by the Thursday deadline, he can likely expect his primary opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, to challenge the validity of the signatures — all of which must be from registered New York City Democrats.

Records show that Cox, who is campaigning in a competitive GOP primary to challenge Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop, cut at least two personal checks from his old address on the Upper East Side of Manhattan even after he re-registered to vote in the 1st Congressional District, at his family's home in Westhampton.

But there has been political tension between the governor and Mr. Klein, who may face a primary challenge from Oliver Koppell, a former assemblyman and City Council member from the Bronx, who served as state attorney general for a year during the administration of Mr. Cuomo's father.

This evening we were over at John Liu's election night party to hear first hand from the candidate the results of one of the most contentious primary challenges in the entire state.

While never the closest of allies, Cuomo and the party have engaged in open warfare recently after the liberal - leaning organization opted to endorse Cynthia Nixon, the actor and education activist who has mounted a spirited primary challenge for governor from the left.

Stringer, at a rally held earlier this month in Harlem in support of Stewart - Cousins, said he's donating the $ 9,000 he received from Loeb in 2011 to a mainstream Democrat, Robert Jackson, who is challenging a member of the breakaway Democrats, Marisol Alcantara, in a primary next year.

Here's one of two TV ads Sen. Bill Stachowski is running as he battles a primary challenge from Erie County Legislator Tim Kennedy in a fight that every well could be the last the veteran Buffalo Democrat wages.

Terry Gipson, a former one - term state senator who had the backing of de Blasio, is considering challenging Cuomo from the left in the Democratic primary next year.

A little more than a month out from New York's primaries, three female House Democrats are hosting a New York City fundraiser on behalf of Rep. Charles B. Rangel, who is again facing a stiff intraparty challenge.

In the Bronx, incumbent Democrat Rivera faces a primary challenge from Councilman Fernando Cabrera, who has drawn fire from LGBT groups for opposing gay marriage and his praise of Uganda's strict anti-gay laws.

Bush had alienated many of the conservatives in his party by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, but he fended off a primary challenge from conservative commentator Pat Buchanan.

A number of top - tier Democrats have opted not to challenge de Blasio in the September primary, so far leaving him to face State Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, who handedly lost the Democratic mayoral primary in 2009 to then - comptroller Bill Thompson and Sal Albanese, a former City Council member from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who ran for mayor in 1997 and 2013.

Dietl, who initially wanted to challenge Mayor de Blasio in the Democratic primary, ended up as a man without a party after the Board of Elections rejected the form he submitted seeking to change his registration from Republican to Democratic as improperly completed.

The Greenwich cable television magnate was the consensus top choice of delegates on the first ballot at the state party's nominating convention, but he faces a likely primary challenge from Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim in August.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D - N.Y., and Sen. Thad Cochran, R - Miss., have challenges from their own party that headline this week's bevy of primaries — the last crop of contests until later this summer.

ALBANY — A poll released Tuesday has Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo matching his lowest favorability among voters since taking office in 2011, but because of strong Democratic and New York City support, he remains well positioned to fend off a primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon.